Quoting: phil995511Snaps = non-free (proprietary) file format belonging to Canonical

That's BS. But if it gives you the opportunity to complain about something you apparently not even use - why not? For others: Snap is ofc open source. What is proprietary is the backend for Snap distribution. But even so you could implement your very own backend.
Years ago Alan Pope explained the why:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8MgktKqjsU [External Link]

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Quoting: Tethys84I've heard nothing but bad things about this game. That the monetization is predatory, and that it's totally a P2W game. I see this and World of Warships get mentioned together a lot as games to avoid.

Must have been a WoT player...

I have been playing WT for 11 years now (exclusively on Linux) and can assure you that it is anything but P2W*. Investing real money reduces the grind considerably. That's pretty much all there is. As far as monetization goes: I do have a premium account which you get twice a year for a 50% discount, which comes then down to about 30 Euros per year. That's it. Every now and then I might buy a premium vehicle (again when there is a sale).
If you don't want to invest any money stick to tiers I to IV and just have a good time. At these stages the grind is easy to endure.

[*]As for P2W: Sales season can be horrible. Your team can be full of noobs in their shiny premium vehicles which they somehow believe are "better" (which they rarely are), only to get slaughtered by experienced players already accustomed to the peculiarities of high tier battles.

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Ok, guys. I have a Crucial 32GB DDR5/6000 DIMM pair lying around in an unopened package. I got it 6 weeks ago for around 90 Euros but I'm willing to trade it for - say - a small apartment in one of today's hot cities I have yet to choose. Your offers are welcome.

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The best thing one can do for performance on ununtu is to get rid of snaps.

Why should this improve performance? It improves first-time launch time. That's all. I suppose your MS Edit application starts within milliseconds when started a second time on a running modern system. Extremely long startup times are a problem of the packager, not the technology itself. If MS Edit takes five seconds for the first start it is more telling about the competence of the packager. Besides I just gave it a try: the initial launch of version 1.2.1 took a fraction of a second on my system.

Once the Blender snap is up I still might be interested an faster code on my Zen4 architecture.

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It will be confusing. Since the trailer says: THIS IS AN XBOX.

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The native package pulls in the libraries - and so does the Snap package... Of course. They're needed. You don't really see the count of packages containing the libd as a disadvantage, do you?

I do. Steam and Wine are the only applications on my system which require i386 libs. Wine straight from the repo frequently had some dependency issues (can't recall the specifics anymore). Wine is now tucked away in a Bottles flatpak along with the single required i386 package. I really like the crap being bundled up in single packages. In a broader sense it all belongs to the "proprietary sphere" of my system. And I just prefer my proprietary stuff in container formats.

And since we are just talking of it:

 
~$ sudo apt install steam-installer 
Paketlisten werden gelesen… Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut… Fertig
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen… Fertig
Einige Pakete konnten nicht installiert werden. Das kann bedeuten, dass
Sie eine unmögliche Situation angefordert haben oder, wenn Sie die
Unstable-Distribution verwenden, dass einige erforderliche Pakete noch
nicht erstellt wurden oder Incoming noch nicht verlassen haben.
Die folgenden Informationen helfen Ihnen vielleicht, die Situation zu lösen:

Die folgenden Pakete haben unerfüllte Abhängigkeiten:
 steam-installer : Hängt ab von: steam-libs-i386 (= 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2) ist aber nicht installierbar
E: Probleme können nicht korrigiert werden, Sie haben zurückgehaltene defekte Pakete.
And to prevent some questions:
 
~$ fastfetch 
                             ....              gregor@threepio
              .',:clooo:  .:looooo:.           ---------------
           .;looooooooc  .oooooooooo'          OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS x86_64
        .;looooool:,''.  :ooooooooooc          Host: X570M Pro4
       ;looool;.         'oooooooooo,          Kernel: Linux 6.14.0-27-generic
      ;clool'             .cooooooc.  ,,       Uptime: 4 hours, 2 mins
         ...                ......  .:oo,      Packages: 2340 (dpkg), 33 (flatpak), 34 (snap)
  .;clol:,.                        .loooo'     Shell: bash 5.2.21
 :ooooooooo,                        'ooool     Display (DELL U2717D): 2560x1440 @ 60 Hz in 27" [External]
'ooooooooooo.                        loooo.    Display (DELL U2717D): 2560x1440 @ 60 Hz in 27" [External]
'ooooooooool                         coooo.    DE: GNOME 46.0
 ,loooooooc.                        .loooo.    WM: Mutter (Wayland)
   .,;;;'.                          ;ooooc     WM Theme: Yaru
       ...                         ,ooool.     Theme: Yaru [GTK2/3/4]
    .cooooc.              ..',,'.  .cooo.      Icons: Papirus [GTK2/3/4]
      ;ooooo:.           ;oooooooc.  :l.       Font: IBM Plex Sans (11pt) [GTK2/3/4]
       .coooooc,..      coooooooooo.           Cursor: Yaru (24px)
         .:ooooooolc:. .ooooooooooo'           Terminal: tilix 1.9.6
           .':loooooo;  ,oooooooooc            Terminal Font: IBM Plex Mono weight=450 (13pt)
               ..';::c'  .;loooo:'             CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (24) @ 4.95 GHz
                                               GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT [Discrete]
                                               Memory: 8.72 GiB / 31.26 GiB (28%)
                                               Swap: 0 B / 8.00 GiB (0%)
                                               Disk (/): 93.19 GiB / 457.38 GiB (20%) - ext4
                                               Local IP (enp5s0): 192.168.100.43/24
                                               Locale: de_DE.UTF-8

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So, where do the 32 bit libs come from that are needed to run the Steam client - let alone those that are needed to run 32 bit games?

There you have it:

/snap/steam/current/lib/i386-linux-gnu
/snap/steam/current/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
/snap/mesa-2404/current/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu

Both the steam and mesa snap contain the needed 32bit libraries.

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I would be very surprised if there's no similar amount of libs provided by some Snap package your Steam package is depending upon.

Steam snap relies on gaming-graphics-core22 (which snaps kisak-fresh) and gtk-common-themes (the latter one is shared among several snaps).

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have you conssidered less caffeine in your diet? big deal...169 packages...have you thought about getting off that 3 decade old 5GB HDD? when my steam Library is just shy of 4TB installed, the last thing i'm worried about is an additional 169 packages....

Really? All of a sudden 169 packages are something that goes without saying while at the same time snap packages are the source of all evil because they are oh so resource hungry.
And no: My rig has plenty of mass storage - still I'm in no need for 169 packages. And I can still remember it once got me into dependency hell when an i386 package was apparently out of sync with its AMD64 sibling...

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sudo apt install steam.

Well, yeah. No shit Sherlock. However, it doesn't install Steam either, since the package is called "steam-installer".

And it doesn't explain, why this is in any way "preferred" - unless you want to "just avoid snaps", which doesn't make a lot of sense when you are on Ubuntu (pick another distro then).
And as I already stated: The apt way will install another 169 packages. 169. This might be a different story, if Steam was a 64-bit application, but it isn't. And for me that's one of those situations where container solutions like flatpak or snap really shine. And since Steam is proprietary (just as most of my other snap packages) it is an even more fitting solution.
(And no, I apparently don't have a single i386 package installed, since my wine things are handled with bottles which again is a tidy flatpak.)

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